who shall remain nameless

who shall remain nameless

Used to specify that someone will remain anonymous in a discussion so as to avoid embarrassing them, getting them into trouble, or to highlight that they already know what they've done. It seems that one of our technicians, who shall remain nameless, failed to properly shut down the system before maintenance took place, resulting in outages across the city.Someone, who shall remain nameless, spilled coffee on the photocopier, so it will be out of commission for the next week or so.

somebody, who will/shall remain/be ˈnameless

(humorous) used to say that you will not mention somebody’s name, either because the people listening to you already know who you are talking about, or because you do not want to embarrass somebody: Somebody, who will remain nameless, actually managed to drink two bottles of champagne!

He had kept the promise of his boyhood, and was now of a lusty frame, verging toward corpulence; good features, good eyes, a genial manner, a ready laugh, a long pair of sandy whiskers, a dash of an American accent, a close familiarity with the great American joke, and a certain likeness to a R- y-l P-rs-n-ge, who shall remain nameless for me, made up the man's externals as he could be viewed in society.

In my archive is a treasured letter from an author (circa early '90s, before email) who was one of those good thinkers and good writers--and who shall remain nameless for reasons shortly to become clear.

Leigh-Davis continued, “Actually, I had a few pictures of one male celebrity, who shall remain nameless, because I met him later in life, and he was rude and unlikeable; which is usually how it works, and is why I like to stay a fan from afar.

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